Dave Sill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Daniel Augusto Fernandes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >Does qmail-lspawn look for local user before it calls qmail-local?
>
> Yes, of course. Since qmail-local runs with the user's uid, the user
> has to exist before qmail-local is started.
>
> This question is also answered nicely by the /var/qmail/doc/PIC*2local
> files.
>
> >I've been told that "it is not the job of a mail delivery agent, such as
> >maildrop, to figure out whether a user exists, or not. That's the mail
> >server's job. That's what it's supposed to do. If the recipient mailbox
> >does not exist, the mail server must bounce the message, instead of
> >running a local mail delivery agent for a non-existent account".
>
> Yes, all true, with the proviso that "mailbox" here means "mail user",
> not "file or directory receiving incoming mail for a particular mail
> user". In other words, if "joe" is a normal, non-root user who owns
> his home directory (which is accessible to to user qmailp), then "joe"
> is a "mailbox"--regardless of whether ~joe/Mailbox or ~joe/Maildir
> exists.
>
And if the if it's a virtual domain account? It could not be able to set
to the user ID, does it look if the recipient mail user actually
exists?
Thanks for your help,
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